Caroline Wozniacki made an early exit from the Italian Open, beaten in three sets by Bojana Jovanovski.

Last Updated: 14/05/13 11:19pm

The 10th seed is still without a win in a major clay-court tournament this season with the French Open just two weeks away.

Denmark's Wozniacki laboured for almost three hours in a struggle which ended in front of a standing-room only crowd, eventually falling to her 48th-ranked opponent in a third-set tie-break.

Wozniacki had beaten the 21-year-old from Belgrade in both of their previous meetings, but was burdened with six double faults while losing serve seven times.

With her victory, the Serb ended a poor run of form and claimed her first win since mid-January at the Australian Open.

Roberta Vinci restored order for the seeds at the Foro Italico as 13th-seeded home favourite came through her contest against Elena Vesnina from Russia, despite losing the opening set on a tie-break 6-7 (2/7) 7-5 6-4.

But it wasn't such good news for another Italian, Karin Knapp who lost 7-5 6-2 to young American Christina McHale.